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WP-Stats

Display your WordPress blog statistics. Ranging from general total statistics, some of my plugins statistics and top 10 statistics.

By Lester Chan·Stat·Free
2.6(7 reviews)
·2.0K+ active installs·Updated 2 years ago
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As of April 2026, WP-Stats is a WordPress stat plugin with 2.0K+ active installations and a 2.6/5 rating from 7 reviews. It has been downloaded 335K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 5.5+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2006. Last updated 2 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Downloads are up 28% this week. Top alternative: Статистика сайта по счетчику….

2.6/57 reviews
2.0K+active installs
335K+total downloads
20 yearssince 2006

Overview

Usage (Create Stats Page)

  1. Go to ‘WP-Admin -> Pages -> Add New’
  2. Type any title you like in the page’s title area
  3. If you ARE using nice permalinks, after typing the title, WordPress will generate the permalink to the page. You will see an ‘Edit’ link just beside the permalink.
  4. Click ‘Edit’ and type in ‘stats’ in the text field (without the quotes) and click ‘Save’.
  5. Type [page_stats] in the page’s content area
  6. Click ‘Publish’
  7. If you ARE NOT using nice permalinks, you need to go to WP-Admin -> Settings -> Stats and under ‘Stats URL’, you need to fill in the URL to the Stats Page you created above.

Usage (With Widget)

  1. Go to WP-Admin -> Appearance -> Widgets
  2. The widget name is St…
Read full description on WordPress.org

Screenshots

Ratings & Reviews

2.67 reviews
5 ★
2
4 ★
1
3 ★
0
2 ★
0
1 ★
4

Recent Reviews

Was much needed
·9 years ago

Useful for blogs with a lot of posts!

Worked right away
by Dinamicore·9 years ago

Worked right away.

Should be very informative for heavy bloggers.

I don´t see a reason nor and argument for the 1 star reviews.

Rate it 5 stars.

Disappointing
by Cristina·9 years ago

Plugin works until you try to modify the settings. Author refuses to do his due diligence to fix the problems.

nice and tiny
by Mike V. Gorbunov·10 years ago

I don’t understand previous bad reviews on that plugin as it works fine. It’s very simple and informative, so I recommend it to everyone.

Useless
by Beelal24·10 years ago·1 reply

Totally unimportant

Download Trends

Today: 8Yesterday: 6This week: 37Period total: 1K

Compatibility

WordPress5.5+ requiredTested up to 6.2.9
PHPfalse+ required

Version Adoption

v2.56
75.2%
v2.55
8.9%
v2.50
6.1%
v2.54
5.3%
Other
4.5%

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Frequently Asked Questions

Changelog

Version 2.56

  • NEW: WordPress 5.5 only because of comment_type changes

Version 2.55

  • FIXED: Notices

Version 2.54

  • FIXED: Akismet_Admin class not found

Version 2.53

  • FIXED: Notices in Widget Constructor for WordPress 4.3

Version 2.52

  • FIXED: Added nonce field and esc_url() to fix XSS. Props HSASec-Team.

Version 2.51

  • NEW: Supports WordPress Mu…
View full changelog on WordPress.org

Contributors

Lester ChanLester Chan
Plugin Info
Version
2.56
Last Updated
Aug 9, 2023
WP Requires
5.5+
Tested Up To
6.2.9
PHP Requires
false+
Active Installs
2.0K+
Downloads
335K+
Added
Jan 3, 2006
Business
Free

Tags

statstatswp-statwp statsstatistics

Developer

L
Lester Chan
20 plugins0.9M+ total installs
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